I was originally going to write a normal prose article regarding the topic of Pragmatism in Programming, however I thought I’d experiment in style by writing in a proverbial style. The following concepts express the school of thought that I subscribe to which I call Pragmatism in Programming. Proverbs written by Ginger Bill The concept of programming Programming is a tool to solve problems that you have in the domain of computers| www.gingerbill.org
NOTE: This is based on, but completely rewritten, from a Twitter post: https://x.com/TheGingerBill/status/1802645945642799423 TL;DR It makes Go feel too “functional” rather than being an unabashed imperative language. I recently saw a post on Twitter showing the upcoming Go iterator design for Go 1.23 (August 2024). From what I can gather, many people seem to dislike the design. I wanted to give my thoughts on it as a language designer. The merged PR for the proposal can be found here: ht...| www.gingerbill.org